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Bungulla laevigata

species of spiders

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ55659290 ↗
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Bungulla laevigata is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Idiopidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 2018 by Australian arachnologists Michael Rix, Robert Raven and Mark Harvey. The specific epithet laevigata comes from the Latin for “smooth”, with reference to the smoothness of the carapace.

Distribution and habitat

The species occurs in Western Australia in the far southern Carnarvon bioregion. The type locality is Nanga Station, 13 km south-west of Hamelin Pool.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bungulla laevigata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.